# The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) (Wales) Regulations 2020, Paragraph 7: Provision of Scheduled drugs

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a dispensing doctor must not provide for a patient any Scheduled drug, except that, where the dispensing doctor or an independent prescriber has ordered a drug which has an appropriate non-proprietary name either by the name or by its formula, they may provide a drug which has the same specification notwithstanding that it is a Scheduled drug (but, in the case of a drug which combines more than one drug, only if the combination has an appropriate non-proprietary name).
(2) Nothing in this Schedule prevents a dispensing doctor providing, otherwise than under pharmaceutical services, a Scheduled drug or a restricted availability appliance for a patient.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2020/1073/schedule/7/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pharmaceutical-services-wales-regulations-2020/schedule-7/paragraph-7
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